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Helena, battle at.
There was a sharp struggle between the National and Confederate troops at Helena, Ark., on the west side of the Mississippi, on July 4, 1863. Gen. B. M. Prentiss was in command there.
The Confederates in that region were under the command of General Holmes, assisted by Generals Price, Marmaduke, Fagan, Parsons, McRae, and Walker, and were the remnants of shattered armies, about 8,000 strong in effective men. The post at Helena was strongly fortified.
It had a garrison of 3,000 men, supported by the gunboat Tyler.
Holmes was ignorant of the real strength of Prentiss, and made a bold attack upon the works.
At three o'clock in the afternoon the Confederates were repulsed at all points, and withdrew with a loss, reported by Holmes, of 20 per cent. of the entire force, or 1,636 men. Prentiss lost 250 men. The Confederate loss must have been much greater than Holmes reported, for Prentiss buried 300 of their dead left behind, and captured 1,100 men.

son of David Porter; entered the navy as midshipman, Feb. 2, 1829.
He was attached to the coast survey from 1836 to 1840.
Then he cruised in Brazilian waters, and served in the Naval Observatory at Washington for a while.
He engaged in the war against Mexico on land and on water, and in 1861 joined the Gulf Squadron, in command of the Powhatan.
He was in the expedition up the Mississippi against New Orleans in 1862, in command of twenty-one mortar-boats and several steamers.
Porter did important service on the Mississippi and Red rivers in 1863-64, and was conspicuous in the siege of Vicksburg.
For the latter service he was promoted rear-admiral, July 4, 1863.
In 1864 he was in command of the North Atlantic blockading squadron, and rendered efficient service in the capture of Fort Fisher in January, 1865.
He was made vice-admiral in July, 1866; admiral, Oct. 17, 1870; and was superintendent of the Naval Academy from 1866 to 1870.
He died in Washington, D. C., Feb. 13, 1891.

ns July 1, and continues with the defeat of Confederates......July 2-3, 1863
Franklin Pierce, ex-President of the United States, addresses a Democratic mass-meeting at Concord, N. H., alluding to Vallandigham as a martyr of free speech......July 4, 1863
Vicksburg surrenders to General Grant......July 4, 1863
Four thousand Confederate raiders, with ten guns, under John H. Morgan, cross the Ohio River at Brandenburg, Ky., into Indiana......July 7, 1863
Port Hudson surrenders to GeneralJuly 4, 1863
Four thousand Confederate raiders, with ten guns, under John H. Morgan, cross the Ohio River at Brandenburg, Ky., into Indiana......July 7, 1863
Port Hudson surrenders to General Banks......July 8, 1863
Confederate army recrosses the Potomac at Williamsport during the night of......July 13, 1863
Draft riot in New York City......July 13-16, 1863
Repulse of the United States troops in their assault on Fort Wagner, Morris Island, S. C.......July 18, 1863
Samuel Houston dies at Huntersville, Tex., aged seventy......July 25, 1863
John J. Crittenden dies at Frankfort, Ky., aged seventy-seven......July 26, 1863
President Lincoln proclaims protection of colore

y: Confederates retreat after five hours engagement......March 30. 1863
Desperate engagement at Tebb's bend of Green River, Taylor county. Two hundred of 25th Michigan Infantry, under Colonel Moore, in a strong natural fortification, are attacked by 600 of Morgan's men. When summoned to surrender, Colonel Moore declined, because the Fourth of July was not an appropriate day to surrender, and the Confederates retreated after several ineffectual attempts to storm the intrenchments......July 4, 1863
General Burnside declares martial law in Kentucky......July 31, 1863
Capt. Edward Cahill having been sent into Kentucky in December, 1863, to recruit free colored men for the Union army, the legislature by resolution protests, and requests the President to remove all camps for negro soldiers, by which our slaves are enticed to leave the service of their owners ......Feb. 18, 1864
Meeting at Louisville of a Border State freedom convention.
One hundred delegates from four States—K

rence seminary and female college at Tilton, opened 1845, receives its charter......1852
Property qualification for State officers abolished......1852
Franklin Pierce inaugurated President......March 4, 1853
Gold discovered at Plainfield, in the Connecticut Valley......1854
State teachers' association incorporated......1854
First regiment of Federal troops leaves Concord for the seat of war......May 25, 1861
Franklin Pierce's remarkable speech at Concord on the war ......July 4, 1863
Soldiers' voting bill, passed Aug. 17, is returned Aug. 26 with a veto, but becomes a law because retained in the governor's hands more than five days......Aug. 17, 1864
Law authorizing a commissioner to edit early provincial records, and Rev. Dr. Bouton, of Concord, chosen......1866
Office of superintendent of public instruction created......1867
Revision and codification of the laws, ordered by the legislature of 1865, completed......1867
New Hampshire College of Agricult

for a general assault.
Pemberton lost hope.
For forty-five days he had been engaged in a brave struggle, and saw nothing but submission in the end, and on the morning of July 3 he raised a white flag That afternoon Grant and Pemberton met and arranged terms of surrender, and at 10 A. M. the next day the vanquished brigades of the Confederates began to march out of the lines at Vicksburg as prisoners of war. At the same time there was a great National victory at Gettysburg (q. v.) and July 4, 1863, was the turning-point in the Civil War. In the battles from Port Gibson to Vicksburg Grant lost 9,855 men, of whom 1,223 were killed.
In these engagements he had made 37,000 prisoners; and the Confederates had lost, besides, 10,000 killed and wounded, with a vast number of stragglers.
Two days before the surrender a Vicksburg newspaper, printed on wallpaper, ridiculed a reported assurance of Grant that he should dine in that city on July 4, saying, Ulysses must first get
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